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1 по одёжке протягивай ножки
1) General subject: you must cut your coat according to your cloth2) Set phrase: cut the coat according to the (or your) cloth (one has to keep within one's means and use what is available (I.e., adapt oneself to circumstances)), cut your coat according to the (or your) cloth (one has to keep within one's means and use what is available (I.e., adapt oneself to circumstances)), lay your game to your winning, put your hand no further than your sleeve will reach, stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach, stretch your legs according to your coverletУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > по одёжке протягивай ножки
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2 по одежке протягивай ножки
1) General subject: you must cut your coat according to your cloth2) Set phrase: cut the coat according to the (or your) cloth (one has to keep within one's means and use what is available (I.e., adapt oneself to circumstances)), cut your coat according to the (or your) cloth (one has to keep within one's means and use what is available (I.e., adapt oneself to circumstances)), lay your game to your winning, put your hand no further than your sleeve will reach, stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach, stretch your legs according to your coverletУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > по одежке протягивай ножки
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3 по одёжке протягивай ножки
посл.cut the (your) coat according to the (your) cloth; stretch your legs according to the (your) coverlet; cf. put your hand (stretch your arm) no further than your sleeve will reach- А они-то обе, невеста и мать, мужичка подряжают, в телеге, рогожею крытой (я ведь так езжал)! Ничего! Только ведь девяносто вёрст "а там преблагополучно прокатимся в третьем классе", вёрст тысячу. И благоразумно: по одёжке протягивай ножки... (Ф. Достоевский, Преступление и наказание) — 'But his bride and her mother are to drive in a peasant's cart covered with sacking (I know, I have been driven in it). No matter! It is only ninety versts and then can 'travel very comfortably, third class', for a thousand versts! Quite right, too. One must cut one's coat according to one's cloth...'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > по одёжке протягивай ножки
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